Innovative program created to make Pinellas classrooms more diverse

According to Pinellas County Schools (PCS), only 9% of the county’s teachers are Black; worse yet, only 2% of teachers are Black males - even as Black students comprise 19% of the student body.

In light of those statistics, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and PCS have partnered to implement an innovative program designed to reduce the discrepancy in the area’s teaching force.

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Waveney Ann Moore: Shedding St. Petersburg’s shameful past, and present

The city-commissioned report on structural racism and its pernicious effect on the lives of Black people in St. Petersburg is in.

It’s infuriating. And frightening in the realization that the overt hate and racial supremacy once commonplace in the United States may be shamelessly acceptable once again.